A Michael Broad Blog
The nature of the cat has very much encouraged people to grant the animal with mystical powers and even sorcery. The cat’s excellent physical abilities, elegant and stealthy behavior plus a refined anatomy and an ability to see in the dark have allowed superstitious people to believe that the cat has magical powers. These …
Mr Noah Webster in his Websters Dictionary published in the United States, includes a definition of the domestic cat which makes for uncomfortable reading for most cat owners or even non-cat owners. Some Americans will probably agree with the definition! (✿◡‿◡) Fair enough, but I am afraid that they’ll be wrong as was Mr …
Peter III, also known as the ‘third Peter’, holds the record as the longest-serving chief mouser at Downing Street. He served for an impressive 17 years under five different prime ministers: Clement Attlee, Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan, and Alec Douglas-Home. Peter III became the successor to Peter II, who tragically died after …
Dick Whittington neither had a cat nor was he born poor 💕😉. The news story that the Christopher Wren church in London where Dick Whittington (1354-1423) was buried (and possibly his cat) is to be sold off resulted in a backlash from many quarters and it prompted a Times journalist, Ben Macintyre, to review …
Well, I can’t verify if the statement on Reddit.com is true that this really is one of the first domestic cat photos taken in 1880 but it seems plausible to suggest that it is one of the earliest cat photographs. The link below takes you to another, earlier article on this topic. The picture …
RELATED: Quora deems picture of cat lying on back with legs splayed offensive My infographic summarises a dispute between two professors; one a Professor of Biology (Cara Wall-Scheffler) and the other a Professor of Anthropology (Vivek Venkataraman). Cara claims that in reviewing the accounts of anthropologists from the 1800s it was clear to her …
This is an entirely new idea. No one has proposed it before and it is speculative but based on good science. It is known that domestic cats with ginger hair are almost 18 times more likely to develop skin cancer than your typical domestic cat with a different coat colour other than white cats …
I am having some fun in instructing AI to create a new emoji cat image. I wanted a smiling, loving emoji cat and here it is. The background is removed so the image is exactly like a true emoji. The image format is WebP, a modern image format for files that are lighter and …
